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22) Pedro Páramo
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Language
English
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• This new translation of one of the classics of Mexican literature, often considered one of the precursors to "magical realism," brings fresh life and vivid texture to Juan Rulfo's seminal tale of memory, betrayal, and love that inspired other canonical
24) Lotería
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate. Includes author's notes and reader's guide.
26) Armored
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
"This is the story of a man, three women, a revolution, and a treasure. An approach to the Mexican revolution in the times of Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Villa, and to the fifteen thousand gold coins of twenty pesos (the 'Maximilianos'), that were stolen from a bank in Ciudad Juárez on May 8, 1911. The man's name was Martín Garret Ortiz and he was a young Spanish mining engineer. It all changed for him that May 8th, when he heard a distant...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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New Children's Books December 2022
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2023
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Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.
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Language
English
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Description
"Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors--"--from book jacket.
32) Cambio de piel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
El Domingo de Ramos de 1965 dos parejas inician un viaje hacia Veracruz, pero se ven obligadas a detenerse en Cholula. Los cuatro personajes se internan en el laberinto de las antiguas galerías que componen el sitio arqueológico de la ciudad, como en un descenso a los infiernos; una travesía que hará surgir los más oscuros secretos de cada uno y concluirá con una tragedia ritual inesperada.Ficción total, en palabras del propio autor,...
33) Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Now, for the first time, this "tall-tale, fairy-tale, soap opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one" (San Francisco Chronicle) is available in trade paper with the original art from the hardcover.
Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
36) Erandi's braids
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In a poor Mexican village, Erandi surprises her mother by offering to sell her long, beautiful hair in order to raise enough money to buy a new fishing net
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English
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In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds-an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events.
38) Costalegre
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An American heiress and modern art collector offers safe passage to a resort in Mexico to European artists under threat from the Nazis, while her emotionally unstable daughter chronicles their wartime experiences.
40) The Russian cage
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Language
English
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
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